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It's not always WebGL-y stuff. For instance Qt is working on a WASM compilation target:

> https://msorvig.github.io/qt-webassembly-examples/widgets_wi...

cf. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63917

The WASM binaries are around 10 megabytes for this. That's a lot, for sure, but this includes a whole windowing system, a raster paint engine, and a C++ reflection mechanism.




this includes a whole windowing system, a raster paint engine, and a C++ reflection mechanism

All of which the browser already has.


Yeah but it doesn't have qt built in.


sure, but if you want to get your existing 500kloc Qt app to show quickly on screen to make a demo for instance, you aren't going to rewrite it in HTML/CSS/JS for the fun.




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